Blossom like a Butterfly

Tuesday, April 28, 2015

You could use real fruits and vegetables instead of toys. I wanted to do the game several times in all three languages there for I used the toy ones.

Paper plate fruits and vegetables basket.

Fine motor activities (Tot trays).

Pasta pouring!

Pompom spooning activity.

Transfer activity (tweezers/ tongs).

Strawberry transfer activity using mini erasers.

Spreading on a piece of bread.

You could use butter, cheese spread or jam. I used chocolate spread as it is my daughters favorite.

Banana Pops!

Cutting with a knife is a great fine motor activity that toddlers love, as they like to imitate grownups. I usually give a butter knife and some soft fruits or cooked vegetables to my daughter since she was two years old. For older kids you can give a sharp knife and vegetables like carrots, beans or potatoes.

I used some chocolate spread for the topping, you could use melted chocolate or anything else your little one would rather prefer. And instead of toothpicks you could use Popsicle sticks.

The very hungry caterpillar is Zainab's favorite book, so I decided to make some story props for the book.

I made the caterpillar using a pipe cleaner and made some lacing cards. The paper bag is the cocoon and I hid the butterfly in the paper bag before starting to read. As I read the story to my toddler, she counted and laced the cards on to the caterpillar.

When we reached the page where the caterpillar built the cocoon, I hid the caterpillar in the paper bag (cocoon) and took out the butterfly from the bag.

Colour matching activity

I made a caterpillar using coloured paper. When I pasted the circles I left enough space to put the cards.